Publishers Lunch
The National Book Foundation has awarded
its 2013 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to E. L. Doctorow and
its 2013 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary
Community to Maya
Angelou. Both will receive their honors at the National Book
Awards on November 20.
Both USA
Today and the Daily
Beast offer their fall book picks (30 and 21 books, respectively). Books
making both lists include:
BLEEDING
EDGE, Thomas Pynchon
THE LOWLAND, Jhumpa Lahiri
ONE SUMMER: America 1927, Bill Bryson
THE GOLDFINCH, Donna Tartt
THE MOST OF NORA EPHRON, Nora Ephron
DOUBLE DOWN, Mark Halperin & John Heilmann
THE LOWLAND, Jhumpa Lahiri
ONE SUMMER: America 1927, Bill Bryson
THE GOLDFINCH, Donna Tartt
THE MOST OF NORA EPHRON, Nora Ephron
DOUBLE DOWN, Mark Halperin & John Heilmann
In addition, the USA Today list included 4
titles from our Fall 2013 Buzz Book Sampler -- Sue Grafton's W
IS FOR WASTED, Elizabeth Gilbert's THE SIGNATURE
OF ALL THINGS, and Amy Tan's THE
VALLEY OF AMAZEMENT, and Wally Lamb's WE
ARE WATER -- while Jonathan Lethem's DISSIDENT
GARDENS landed on the Daily Beast list.
USA Today also highlights "cool fall
authors" Billy
Crystal, Veronica
Roth, and Tom
Perrotta, while Amazon's Sara Nelson, BN's Patricia Bostelman, and McLean
& Eakin's Matt Norcross predict
additional fall hits.
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